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Half Moon Theatre On Demand is a streaming service offering unforgettable theatre for young audiences available to watch any time, anywhere.
You can now watch digital productions of some of our recent shows for young people online, recorded live at Half Moon Theatre and professionally filmed and edited.
Our Theatre On Demand service allows you to watch a show for £7 whenever you want, and as many times as you like for 48 hours. Join us for an online performance that puts the best seats in the house into your own home.
Closed captions, British Sign Language (BSL) and Audio Described productions available.
On Demand shows available to watch online
We also have a range of virtual performance packages available to watch at school. Find out more.
On Demand shows
Three friends embark on an exciting adventure to chase their butterflies away. They cross new seas to uncharted lands, on a journey filled with discovery. The only trouble is they’re all a bit worried about it! During their voyage the group ride the waves, walk high bridges, skirt deep caves and climb to the sky, before reaching dry land braver than ever before.
Created in response to young children’s experience of anxiety, Butterflies is an uplifting tale of friendship, courage and facing your fears, told using innovative staging, breathtaking physicality, the power of play and an original musical score.
This show has limited dialogue. This makes it accessible to a range of people, including d/Deaf, hard of hearing and non-English speakers.
Butterflies has closed captioning and is also available with British Sign Language and Audio Description.
Exolore more about the show Watch the Audio Described trailer
“Butterflies shines a light on the challenging circumstances many young people are living in. As someone who has had anxiety for as long as I can remember – certainly from the age of the young audience sat around me, captivated by the show – seeing Butterflies 20 years ago would have been a truly transformative experience, though watching it now is powerful enough.”
When Crusty and his scruffy cat Dollop arrive on Supreme Street, things will never be the same again. After meeting their neighbours, Dr. D and her spotless feline Crinkle, things quickly get out of hand. Soon there’s a full-scale battle of words, tinned beans and cooking pots, fuelled by misunderstandings and the inability to listen to others.
This spoken word poetry show is heartfelt, provocative and full of quirky humour, telling the action-packed story of new friendships and adventures that go cat-astrophically wrong.
Originally commissioned in association with London’s SPINE Library Festival 2021 and Apples and Snakes – England’s leading spoken word poetry organisation.
The Cat-Astrophic Adventures of Dollop and Crinkle has closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and is also available with British Sign Language.
Exolore more about the show
When Little Titch and her scruffy rucksack arrive at the giant, pink house it is not what she expected – a blanket of thick grey dust covers everything in sight and it is wild and overgrown. Her new home is cold and unwelcoming until she meets Nelly, a flamboyant and loveable old Aunt. Together the pair discover they have more in common than they first thought and that friendship can heal hidden wounds.
Written by acclaimed award-winning children’s author Laura Dockrill, Dust uses exciting puppetry and exquisite poetic language to explore a heartfelt story about love, loss, identity and memory. With haunting music by Hugo White of The Maccabees, this striking and emotional new play is a joyous reminder about just how playful the world can be.
Dust has closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and is also available with British Sign Language.
Dust won the 2022 Off West End Theatre OnComm Offiette Award for Best Theatre for Children Aged 5-11.
Exolore more about the show Interview with Laura Dockrill Interview with Hugo White
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “An utterly enjoyable production… [that] has an inherent beauty and magic…. Dust deals with a number of difficult emotions, but with such a light touch it’s suitable for children of any age, including the adult kind… A captivating, imaginative production that uses tiny particles to make big things possible.”
Jackson’s dad is building a new house out of weird and whacky bits and bobs that people have thrown away. The last few years have been hard for young Jackson, living without his mum. Now his dad wants to make a new start, but Jackson isn’t ready to move on. Not until he blows the dust off mum’s favourite old book and conjures up the Story Fairy.
Celebrating books and the joy of reading, The House That Jackson Built features a larger than life pop-up book and thrilling adventures, including a giant who cannot say “fee-fi-fo-fum”, an elephant professor and the Wordy Wordy Birdie.
The House That Jackson Built has closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and is also available with British Sign Language.
Exolore more about the show Interview with Justin Coe
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “An hour of sublime entertainment to children, who will find themselves mesmerised by the magic of storytelling…. Superb children’s theatre.”
Take flight with two new friends as they soar through clouds, fly over distant seas and circle faraway lands. They touch down in mysterious new places and discover oceans to swim in, rocks to clamber over and bridges to cross. But where will they fly to next?
Lift-off on a journey full of music, physicality and zooming paper aeroplanes, where sometimes the skies are not as clear as we first think.
Developed with children who have shared their experiences of losing loved ones, Paper Aeroplane sensitively explores loss and bereavement, the challenges we face when trying to move on, and how we can help one another along the way.
The show was a 2021 Off West End OnComm finalist for Best Show for Children.
Paper Aeroplane has closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and is also available with British Sign Language.
Exolore more about the show Interview with Amber-Rose May
“It’s a really stunning production… It’s incredibly sensitively done and manages to strike the perfect balance between raising the issue of grief without being too triggering or overwhelming.”
Afonso wants to go to his best friend’s birthday party, but where is his invitation – has it been lost in the post, or maybe he wasn’t even invited? When it finally arrives the excitement and nerves become too much to handle. What should he wear? Will they have balloons? Will anyone play with him? And what about the cake?
Heartfelt, provocative and full of quirky humour, Party features striking, colourful designs and exuberant physicality set to the beats of a glorious Fado inspired contemporary soundtrack. Let the warmth of a Portuguese summer take you to a place where difference is something to celebrate.
This show has limited dialogue. This makes it accessible to a range of people, including d/Deaf, hard of hearing and non-English speakers.
Party has closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences and is also available with British Sign Language and Audio Description.
Exolore more about the show Watch the Audio Described trailer
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Colourful, captivating, and comical, this is totally family-friendly imaginative fun. I defy you not to bop along to the fabulous music.”
Half Moon’s recent digital work was been made possible by funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, distributed by City Bridge Trust through the London Community Response Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players for making this possible.
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